Lumbar Spine Surgery

A prior spine wellness blog entry highlighted the Great American Smokeout, held on November 19. This spine wellness blog entry will address smoking and your spine. Usually when you think about the health effects of smoking – you think about cancer and heart disease. But smoking also affects your spine wellness and as a recent study indicated, can contribute to lower back pain.

Study results published on Spine-Health.com indicated that there is a link between smoking and lower back pain. The study concluded that the development of lower back pain was linked to smoking history and hypertension. Additionally, the development of lumbar spondylosis was also associated with smoking history and hypertension.

For more details, here is the link to the study summary.